Europe has a functioning public transit system (some of it from my understanding paid for by those gas taxes). So if you want to get someplace a personal car is usually not required.
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T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Approved, May Be Finalized as Early as April
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Europe has a functioning public transit system (some of it from my understanding paid for by those gas taxes). So if you want to get someplace a personal car is usually not required.
Switched over to T-Mobile a couple years ago from AT&T. Despite the spotty coverage sometimes... T-Mobile has been great! I love the bill transparency and friendly, helpful customer service crew. I've never looked back.
$190 a month for 3 lines? Sorry to break it to you but that's a terrible deal, especially for a sub-par carrier. I have 5 smartphone lines and 2 iPads and I pay $185 with T-Mobile. everything unlimited, HD on the 5 phone lines and free Netflix.
Yes, but your low plan is likely subsidized by enormous taxes. I don't feel like paying for someone else's cell phone plan.
Again, it's not hard to just go and check, instead of using your own plans.
I literally went to T-mobile's website, picked the cheapest (magenta) plan, and added 3 lines.
You can keep telling me what you specifically are paying, but the T-mobile website says differently.
Maybe you guys are forgetting to add the price of the phone? I wouldn't know since I don't have your plan. Those are nice number, and I'm not saying you're lying, but three clicks into it and I'm already looking at $227 a month.
Minus any extras.
Sprint is cheaper. It's really the only reason why they're still around and why some people don't want a merger.
As you can see from the replies, many (most?) people don't consider the cost of the phone as part of the "per line" cost these days. Perhaps because phone costs tend to be the same regardless of carrier, and the phone cost can vary widely depending on model & capacity.
I buy phones outright. My $70/month for two lines is the service cost (all in).
A caveat on the Magenta 55 plan is it's limited to two voice lines, and one of the two people must be at least 55 years old.
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If Sprint just went under, with no buyers? I don't see how this outcome would have been any better? In fact, you'd probably just have its bandwidth put up for auction and largely bought by Verizon and AT&T if that happened -- making things worse.
Sprint has been generally a "trash" level of service for years now. They only bribe people to sign up with them by giving really good deals on high end cellphones as part of the contract. But then people are chained to the worst coverage in the nation and customer service/billing that's prone to making mistakes.
Really, what I'm seeing is an increase in the coverage and service quality of the "second tier" options, such as buying cellular service via your cable company like Comcast or Charter. They combine putting calls on their wi-fi hotspots with the contracts they've worked out with the main carriers to give you lower rates.
Sprint has been generally a "trash" level of service for years now. They only bribe people to sign up with them by giving really good deals on high end cellphones as part of the contract. But then people are chained to the worst coverage in the nation and customer service/billing that's prone to making mistakes.
Really, what I'm seeing is an increase in the coverage and service quality of the "second tier" options, such as buying cellular service via your cable company like Comcast or Charter. They combine putting calls on their wi-fi hotspots with the contracts they've worked out with the main carriers to give you lower rates.
I can use unlimited data, let me explain more clearly.
Everyday i get 5GB, after I have used that I can open up the app of my provider and with literally a click on a button I get another 1GB, if I have used that GB I repeat the process and get another GB and then another one and so on. So it really is unlimited, but as a precaution to prevent people from downloading terabytes per day and therefore clogging the network they have put up these (very reasonable) barriers.
For those of you wondering, I am on Tele2.
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What taxes? What subsidies? The Dutch government privatized its Mail/(mobile)phone company KPN in the 1990’s.
The 25 euro per month I pay for my mobile subscription is with 21% VAT included.
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That makes sense, and that's some weird requirement for a phone plan.
If I took the phone cost out my Sprint plan would be $95 (three iPhone XRs), so about $95 a month for 3 lines and ~40GBs of data.
Only reason I include the price of the phone is because I don't plan on ever owning a phone for life. We trade them in after 18 months to two years so that $35 a month per line is always there.
well who the hell factors the price of the phone into the cost of the service without pointing it out?!
this is what i pay for three lines of service - two of which are grandfathered into the "one" plan, which is what they had before magenta.
Prices will rise.
The US already has some of the highest prices for wireless.
The US already has some of the highest prices for wireless.
The second paragraph is nonsense. I get terrific coverage, and the billing has been no problem.
It's essentially their "senior" plan - other carriers have such plans but they're very restrictive last I looked.
I used to have a Sprint work phone. My service quality was pretty poor compared to my personal phone on AT&T and later T-Mobile. I'm glad your service is good but that's not been the case for me in the places I frequent.
I got out of the phone tradein/subsidy stuff with AT&T years ago. I'll typically keep a phone 2-3 years, and my wife is typically fine with a 3-4 year refresh cycle.
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I'm glad your experience has been good ... but that's certainly not the norm. If it was, Sprint wouldn't be finding itself in this situation where it needs a buyer!
I know as far back as 7 or 8 years ago, I worked in I.T. for a steel fabrication firm that standardized on Sprint as their carrier. (They had been using Nextel's phones for all the people out in the shop, mainly for its walkie-talkie capabilities and Sprint seemed like the logical company to switch to when they bought out Nextel.) It was a mess. Sprint promised a new series of phones that could do the same "push to talk" that Nextel did, but it never worked nearly as well. There were huge lag times between pressing the button and it establishing the communications with the phone on the other end, etc.
Billing was always getting mixed up, and the web site would show the wrong handsets for the wrong employees. Getting phones repaired under warranty was a joke too. I'd have to drive down to a local Sprint store with one for something like a new microphone or speaker to be put in one - and they'd make me wait for 45 minutes or more to be helped. They'd usually take the phone in for servicing and tell me to come back in a week or two when it was ready for pickup -- and couldn't supply us with a loaner replacement or anything.
I never had good signal quality in that part of the city with Sprint either. Their signal couldn't penetrate the walls of our building any good at all, so you'd have to go outside to make calls if you were on one side of the business.
I know as far back as 7 or 8 years ago, I worked in I.T. for a steel fabrication firm that standardized on Sprint as their carrier. (They had been using Nextel's phones for all the people out in the shop, mainly for its walkie-talkie capabilities and Sprint seemed like the logical company to switch to when they bought out Nextel.) It was a mess. Sprint promised a new series of phones that could do the same "push to talk" that Nextel did, but it never worked nearly as well. There were huge lag times between pressing the button and it establishing the communications with the phone on the other end, etc.
Billing was always getting mixed up, and the web site would show the wrong handsets for the wrong employees. Getting phones repaired under warranty was a joke too. I'd have to drive down to a local Sprint store with one for something like a new microphone or speaker to be put in one - and they'd make me wait for 45 minutes or more to be helped. They'd usually take the phone in for servicing and tell me to come back in a week or two when it was ready for pickup -- and couldn't supply us with a loaner replacement or anything.
I never had good signal quality in that part of the city with Sprint either. Their signal couldn't penetrate the walls of our building any good at all, so you'd have to go outside to make calls if you were on one side of the business.
This. CDMA should have been an outmoded technology many years ago. GSM is ultimately more versatile, and I look forward to more carriers supporting it.
Now hopefully this will also mean more carriers will support auto-activation. The fact that sprint and it’s subsidiaries don’t use auto-activation is so frustrating to both it’s customers and it‘s retailers.
Also, hopefully Boost mobile now goes away. A terrible company that takes advantage of low income customers with new old stock devices that fry themselves because their (Boost’s) signal strength is garbage.
Current rates -- for T-Mobile's most expensive plan... Magenta Plus... is $140 for 3 lines. 85 for 1, 140 for 2, 3rd line is free so still 140... 170 for 4... 200 for 5...
T-Mobile's website does not say differently. I'm adjusting the slider right now.
If you want to do the others...
Cheapest plan -- Essentials: 1-60, 2-90, 3-105, 4-120, 5-135 ... + taxes for all levels
Middle plan -- Magenta: 1-70, 2-120, 3-free/120, 4-140, 5-160 ... taxes included at all levels
So I don't know what website you're on... but it isn't T-Mobile's.
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GSM is dead. It ended at 2G and there's none left in the US save for maybe the absolute boonies in middle-of-nowhere zero populationville. It was replaced by W-CDMA/3G... aka UMTS. Which is also on its death bed now. LTE is yet a different technology.
And CDMA dies at the end of the year when Verizon shuts it down. Last Dec 31st was the last day to even activate a device for it. But they're LTE too anyhow... as is Sprint.
$559 cellular 128GB iPad.
$19.12 x 24 = $458. Unlimited data every month. No throttling.
As mentioned, Verizon’s unlimited tablet plan is $840 annually. I’m not sure where you missed the only thing being paid for is the data plan.
His Verizon contract prevented him from filing police reports when homophobics attacked him at his home. But yeah, no loyalty.
I’ve been with T-Mobile since it was called VoiceStream Wireless. That was around 2000-2001, don’t remember well.
My sprint plan is superior to any t mobile plan with better coverage as well... this sucks for me
Errr what ? I’ve been on all 4 carriers and sprints fine. Been up and down the eastern coast of the United States with no issues unless jt was the middle of no where literally.